The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Power, Dr. Godknows Igali, has said that Nigeria will soon fully harness its vast solar energy potential to help correct the imbalance in its energy mix, which is currently skewed in favour of thermal plants, The Guardian reports.
Speaking at the launch of Nigeria’s National Renewable Energy Plan, Energy Efficiency Action Plan and the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Action Agenda, he said these policies have been fashioned under the auspices of the Inter-Ministerial Committee drawn from agencies like, Environment, National Planning, Finance, Energy Commission and Standard Organization of Nigeria. While donor agencies like the European Union and German International Donor Agency–GIZ, have provided the facilities which created the template for sustainable rural electrification projects.
Igali also urged Governors of the various states of the Federal Republic to facilitate access to vast areas of land for solar projects, as the building of solar plants which is the future of increased power supply in the country, would require large expanses of land for these projects.
